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Exhibit A,
BmEm
We are friends in a sleeping bag, splitting the heat
GCGC
We have one filthy pillow to share and your lips are in my hair
GBm
Someone upstairs has a rat that we laughed at
Em
And people are drinking
GCGC
And singing Van Halen and Slayer on a ukulele tear
G
Exhibit BBm
Well, we found an apartment
Em
It's not much to look at
GC
A futon on a floor
GC
Torn-off desktop for a door
GBm
All the decor's made of milk crates and duct tape
Em
And if we have sex
GC
They can hear us through the floor
GC
But we don't do that anymore
GEm
And I lay there wondering, what is the matter?
GEm
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
GEm
You took the blanket, so I took the bedsheet
GEm
But I would have held you if you'd only
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Let me
G
Exhibit CBm
Look how quaint
Em
And how quiet and private
GC
Our paychecks have bought us a condo in town
GC
It's the nicest flat around
GBm
You picked a mattress and had it delivered
Em
And I walked upstairs
GC
And the sight of it made my heart pound
GC
And I wrapped my arms around me
GEm
And I stood there wondering, what is the matter?
GEm
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
GEm
You walked right past me and straightened the covers
GEmC
But I would still love you if you wanted a lover
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But you said, 'All the money in the world won't buy a bed so big and wide,
EmD/F#GCdim/G#AmBmC
to guarantee that you won't acci - dentally touch me in the night.'
G
Exhibit DBm
Now we're both mostly paralyzed
EmGC
Don't know how long we've been lying here in fear
GC
Too afraid to even feel
GBm
I find my glasses and you turn the light out
Em
Roll off on your side
GC
Like you've rolled away for years
GC
Holding back those king-size tears
GEm
And I still don't ask you, what is the matter?
GEm
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
G
You take the heart failure
Em
I'll take the cancer
GEmC
I've long stopped wondering why you don't answer
G
Exhibit EBmEm
You can certainly see how fulfilling a life
GCGC
From the cost and size of stone of our final resting home
GBm
We got some nice ones right under a cherry tree
EmGC
You and me lying the only way we know
GC
Side by side and still and cold
GEm
And I finally ask you, what was the matter?
GEm
Was it a matter of worse or of better?
GEm
You stretch your arms out and finally face me
G
You say I would have told you
EmC
If you'd only asked me
EmC
If you'd only asked me
EmC
If you'd only asked me